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Yes, Everyone Can

4/12/2019

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Good morning, Readers!

I'm over at Black Gate Magazine today talking about writers, and how everyone can be one, and should go for it, if it's something they want to do. Welp, I just spoilt the entire post. Read it anyway.
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Image from thewallpaper.co. I love this storm giant thing.
I had an argument with a friend the other day, and it’s kind of stuck in my throat a bit. Permit me to indulge myself and get all my thoughts around the issue out. It always helps to write it out. You’re all basically my therapists.

Jokes aside, the argument centered around the idea that not everyone can (as in should) be a writer. He says not, I say absolutely they can, and should if they so desire.

Now, this isn’t an argument about whether people have the time or the will to become writers. That is a separate issue. If the assumption is that they want to, then they absolutely can, and absolutely should.

His argument was something around talent, that just because someone can string a few sentences together, it doesn’t make them writers. Their story ideas may be garbage. They may not be able to spell all that well. They can’t adequately turn what’s in their head into something understandable on the page.
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In a way, I suppose, he’s right.

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Eric A Desmarais link
4/12/2019 09:19:10 am

I definitely recognize myself in that story. Although it's common enough that it could be anyone.

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S.M. Carrière link
4/12/2019 11:25:49 am

Definitely you, but I didn't want to out you by name in case you weren't up for it.

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Martin Fransham
5/12/2019 09:55:18 pm

Great article. It certainly has me thinking. It is hard to decide where I land.

I think of it like martial arts. Anyone can be a martial artist but not everyone makes it to the pro leagues.

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S.M. Carrière link
6/12/2019 09:03:56 am

That's a good way to look at it.

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